The second Trump administration calls its opponents "domestic terrorists." People who protest ICE raids, who stage rallies, even progressive nonprofits and mutual aid organizations — they've all been blamed for contributing to political violence and domestic terrorism. Along with this heightened rhetoric is a burgeoning campaign to make the left suffer real consequences. Legal tools honed during the War on Terror are now being trained on those Trump has described as "the enemy within.” That's activists, nonprofits, and whoever else stands in the way of his efforts to remake the federal government — and the country — in his own image.

Creating the Enemy Within, a running TPM project, tracks this state campaign to treat dissent as terrorism.